Ten Paces & floral

October 31st, 2011

A little while ago I participated in Ten Paces and Draw, a collaborative illustration project where you do a sketch for another illustrator and finish up a sketch made for you. As someone who doesn’t really do collaborations, it was really fun and unexpectedly liberating! The week’s theme was “floral” and I got a super cute sketch from Sarah Straub, the finished version of which you can see above.

My sketch was based on this weird fairytale I came across some time ago. “My gift to you is that every time you speak either a flower or jewel will drop out of your mouth” Can you imagine? That’s supposed to be a reward? On what planet! And she managed to reel in a prince with stuff falling out of her mouth continuously, impressive stuff.

Anyway, my sketch was finished by Julia Kostreva, who did a really beautiful job. Last week I needed a sketch to play around with some textures I was working on and ended up taking my sketch to completion too, which you can see below. Circle of life, etc.

I just finished reading the fairy tale. It seems like the fairy didn’t think her gift through, although if the girl landed a prince to save her from her awful sibling and mother, it worked well enough :) Just think what Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter could do with an adaptation of this story!

Wow, what a neat idea. I love both illustrations! I also remember reading that fairytale as a child and thinking that it must hurt to always have things coming out of your mouth, like throwing up or something. Not pleasant at all! Still, I adore your illustration~

I don’t know if you know but Neil Gaiman did a re-telling of that fairytale in ‘Who Killed Amanda Palmer’. He takes it to the obvious conclusion of her choking on the sharp jewels as they come up her mouth and scrape her throat. It’s a pretty sinister tale.

Wow, what a neat idea. I love both illustrations! I also remember reading that fairytale as a child and thinking that it must hurt to always have things coming out of your mouth, like throwing up or something.Such great work on your blog………Keep it up

I always loved that fairytale as a child. My mother has a book from the 50’s with that story in it and I love the illustrations in it. Very pretty representation of it. Though I always thought of it more as spilling from her lips not so much her mouth.But enjoy none the less.

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I'm Kristina and I live by the sea in Brighton and work as a freelance illustrator. I dig cats, sequins, the internet, Nancy Mitford, cream teas, the Pre-Raphaelites and naps among other things.
This blog is a medley of drawings, photos and anything else I find pleasing to the eye.